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Lincoln City
The Bay House
A refined waterfront dining room on Siletz Bay, the coast's longtime special-occasion table, with a deep Oregon and global wine list.
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For the food-led
Dock to table, dory boats, and a chef in your kitchen.
The Oregon Coast eats straight from the water and the farms behind it. We build the trip around it.
Design This TripLocal Ocean Seafoods on Newport's bayfront serves the catch straight off the boats outside, and Restaurant Beck pairs a clifftop tasting menu with Depoe Bay below. The Stephanie Inn dining room and Newmans at 988 round out the north coast's defining tables.
Anchor the trip around the catch
Time the week around a guided crabbing morning on the bay, a stop at the Tillamook Creamery for the cheese trail, and the Willamette Valley wineries an hour inland for the pours that fill the coast's lists. Source local: Dungeness crab and razor clams, Yaquina Bay oysters, line-caught rockfish, and Oregon pinot noir.
A private chef plus a guided crabbing-and-market morning is the ideal luxury-food spine, with the bayfront and clifftop icons reserved around it.
What’s inside
- Dock-to-table fish straight off the boats
- Private-chef cottage nights from the day's catch
- Guided crabbing, clamming, and a cheese-trail stop
- The bayfront and clifftop icons, reserved
- Local sourcing: crab, oysters, rockfish, pinot noir
A sample rhythm
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Catch morning
A guided crabbing or clamming session to source the day.
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Chef nights
Private-chef dinners in the cottage, built from the morning's haul.
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Clifftop table
A tasting-menu evening above the surf at Restaurant Beck.
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Icons
Bayfront and oceanfront classics, reserved.
The The Oregon Coastwe’d build in
The pieces that fit this trip.
The table
Fresh catch, dory boats, and bay-house views.
The Oregon Coast eats from the water it sits on: dock-to-table oysters, line-caught rockfish, and Dungeness crab. We hold the hard reservations.
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Newport
Local Ocean Seafoods
A fish-market restaurant on Newport's working bayfront, serving the day's catch straight off the boats tied up outside.
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Cannon Beach
The Wayfarer Restaurant & Lounge
Oceanfront dining with a Haystack Rock view, Pacific Northwest seafood and a strong list, one of Cannon Beach's defining tables.
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Cannon Beach
Newmans at 988
Chef John Newman's intimate French-Italian room, a longstanding fine-dining destination just off the main street in Cannon Beach.
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Cannon Beach
The Dining Room at Stephanie Inn
A four-course Pacific Northwest prix fixe with ocean views, sourcing coastal seafood and Willamette Valley produce and wine.
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Depoe Bay
Restaurant Beck
Chef Justin Wills's clifftop tasting-menu room at the Whale Cove Inn, a multiple James Beard semifinalist over Depoe Bay.
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Salmon, halibut, and Rogue steelhead.
Charter boats run out of Newport, Depoe Bay, and Garibaldi for salmon, bottomfish, and halibut, while the Rogue River is legendary for steelhead.
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Newport
Newport Tradewinds
A long-running Newport charter operation off Yaquina Bay for salmon, halibut, tuna, and bottomfish, with crabbing combos.
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Garibaldi
Garibaldi Charters
Tillamook Bay-based ocean charters for salmon, lingcod, and rockfish, plus seasonal tuna runs offshore.
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Depoe Bay
Dockside Charters
Family-run fishing and crabbing charters out of Depoe Bay's tiny harbor, well regarded for bottomfish and salmon trips.
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Gold Beach
Rogue River steelhead guides
Guided drift trips on the Wild and Scenic Rogue for salmon and steelhead, arranged through the riverfront lodge.
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Garibaldi
Tillamook Bay crabbing
One of the most productive bays on the coast for Dungeness crab, with dock setups and boat charters arranged in your name.
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Newport
Yaquina Bay oyster & clam flats
Dig the Yaquina flats for clams or pair a bay charter with a stop for Pacific oysters grown in the estuary.
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Coastal lodges that hold the shoreline.
From a Cannon Beach inn at the foot of Haystack Rock to a forested resort on Siletz Bay, these are the stays an Oregon Coast trip is built around.
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Cannon Beach
Stephanie Inn
An adults-only oceanfront inn at the foot of Haystack Rock, with fireside rooms, a four-course prix fixe dining room, and a daily wine social.
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Pacific City
Headlands Coastal Lodge & Spa
Pacific City's modern oceanfront flagship below Cape Kiwanda, with a full spa, oceanview rooms and cottages, and adventure coaches on call.
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Gleneden Beach
Salishan Coastal Lodge
A forested resort on Siletz Bay across 250 acres, with a links golf course, indoor pool, spa, and an aerial ropes course in the trees.
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Gold Beach
Tu Tu' Tun Lodge
An intimate riverfront lodge on the Rogue River, a Relais & Chateaux-caliber retreat known for jet-boat access and a seasonal chef's table.
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Newberg
The Allison Inn & Spa
The wine country flagship an hour inland, with a 15,000-square-foot spa and the acclaimed Jory restaurant, an ideal pre or post coast stay.
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Pacific City
Inn at Cape Kiwanda
Every room faces Haystack Rock and the dory beach, a comfortable oceanfront base across the road from Pelican Brewing.
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Tide pools, crabbing, and the dunes.
The one-of-a-kind coast days: kneeling at a tide pool, pulling crab pots in a bay, and cresting a 400-foot dune by sandboard or buggy.
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Yachats
Tide pooling at Cape Perpetua
Among the richest rocky intertidal on the coast, sea stars, anemones, and urchins in the protected pools at low tide.
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Newport & Garibaldi
Crabbing & clamming on the bays
Drop pots for Dungeness crab off a bay dock or dig the flats for razor clams, with guides and gear arranged in your name.
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Florence
Sandland Adventures
Guided dune-buggy tours and rentals on the Oregon Dunes, the signature thrill of the central coast's sand country.
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Florence
Sand Master Park
The first sandboarding park in the country, with lessons and board rentals on sculpted dunes above Florence.
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Pacific City
Cape Kiwanda dory beach
Watch the flat-bottomed dory fleet launch straight off the sand below the great dune, a fishing tradition found nowhere else.
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Tillamook County
Three Capes Scenic Drive
A backroad loop linking Cape Meares, Cape Lookout, and Cape Kiwanda, the coast's most concentrated string of headlands.
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